Clockwise from top: Bush tells Donald Rumsfeld, "Go spread the word of democracy in the Middle East, my boy." The nameplate on Bush's desk reads "Chairman of the World". Raouf of Al-Ahali; triple piggy-backing the way forward, the US is tempting the Arab world by dangling the peace process, while Israel attempts to entice the Americans with a ballot box. Rabei in Al-Riyadh; the Great Satan and the Axis of Evil break down decades of animosity. Al-Hayat's Habib Haddad; Mohamed Amr in Akher Sa'a magazine shows a distraught World -- standing among reminders of the Bam earthquake, the plane crash in Sharm El-Sheikh, war, poverty and mad cow disease -- asking the New Year, "It's like this from the beginning?!"